Wendy Line

Wendy Line
(née Clarke)
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Sport
ClubSouthampton BC
Medal record
Representing  England
World Outdoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place1988 Aucklandpairs
Gold medal – first place1988 Aucklandteam
Silver medal – second place1996 Leamington Spasingles
Silver medal – second place1996 Leamington Spateam
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place1986 Aucklandsingles
British Isles Championships
Gold medal – first place1986triples

Wendy Line (née Clarke) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]

Bowls career

Line only started bowling at the age of 40 but won a bronze medal in the pairs at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland.[2]

Her greatest achievement came in the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Auckland when she won the gold medal in the women's singles.[3] She represented England in the singles event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland[4][5] and four years later represented England in the fours event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.[6][7][8]

Under her maiden name of Clarke she won the 1981 National fours[9] and the 1982 national singles.[10] In 1985, she won the national triples title, bowling for Southampton BC.[11]

Personal life

In 1984, she married fellow international bowler Peter Line, who died in 2025.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Wendy Line Profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. ↑ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
  3. ↑ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
  4. ↑ "1990 Athletes". Team England.
  5. ↑ "England team in 1990". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
  7. ↑ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  8. ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  9. ↑ "Bowls". Daily Mirror. 14 August 1981. Retrieved 22 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ "Bowls". Sandwell Evening Mail. 13 August 1982. Retrieved 18 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ↑ "No disgrace in final defeat". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 15 August 1985. Retrieved 21 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ↑ "Bowls: Mixed fortunes for family pair". The Daily Telegraph. 26 February 2003. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
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